This story takes place in the future. Where the world has been attack by aliens called Buggers. To prepare the world against another attack from the Buggers. The military train geniuses to fight the buggers since they are born. Ender is on of those geniuses. Ender has an older brother named Peter and an older Sister named Valentine. Ender is recruited into the army after passing tests, and quickly becomes one of the best students at the Battle School.Battles school is in a ship faraway from Earth. In the Battle school they play many games that help them fight against the Buggers. Ender soon becomes isolated from his peers, because he is too good at all the games the students play.Other students also begin to hate him. The military adults do not give him the chance to settle in and make friends. They are also always moving him to higher levels of the Battle School because everyone believes he is the only one that can defeat the Buggers. After he finishes all the levels they move him to Command School. In this school they only play strategic games that will help them fight the Buggers. During Command School they make him play the most intense training scenario against the Buggers. He barely beats this hard game, which was actually the war against the Buggers.He beats it by destroys all Buggers world. When he returns to Earth, he notices that the Earth has changed a lot. Peter has taken over control of the world and Valentine convinces Ender to go with her on a colonization mission to populate the worlds left behind by the Buggers.
An Outstanding Book:
Ender's Game deserves to be in the Outstanding Book for The College Bound list. This book gives you some ideas of how the future might be like. The theme of this book is show it how people can manipulate you into doing something you don't want. For example Ender was tricked into thinking that he killed all the Buggers in the game, which was actually real.
Recommendation:
I would recommend this book to any one who is interested in what the future might be like. I liked this book because it made me, not want to stop reading this book.I give this 4 out of 5.
Quotes:
"No authority except excellence." (Card 167)
"I am not a happy man, Ender. Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it."(Card 125)
Ender's Game
By: Orson Scott Card
Summary:
This story takes place in the future. Where the world has been attack by aliens called Buggers. To prepare the world against another attack from the Buggers. The military train geniuses to fight the buggers since they are born. Ender is on of those geniuses. Ender has an older brother named Peter and an older Sister named Valentine. Ender is recruited into the army after passing tests, and quickly becomes one of the best students at the Battle School.Battles school is in a ship faraway from Earth. In the Battle school they play many games that help them fight against the Buggers. Ender soon becomes isolated from his peers, because he is too good at all the games the students play.Other students also begin to hate him. The military adults do not give him the chance to settle in and make friends. They are also always moving him to higher levels of the Battle School because everyone believes he is the only one that can defeat the Buggers. After he finishes all the levels they move him to Command School. In this school they only play strategic games that will help them fight the Buggers. During Command School they make him play the most intense training scenario against the Buggers. He barely beats this hard game, which was actually the war against the Buggers.He beats it by destroys all Buggers world. When he returns to Earth, he notices that the Earth has changed a lot. Peter has taken over control of the world and Valentine convinces Ender to go with her on a colonization mission to populate the worlds left behind by the Buggers.An Outstanding Book:
Ender's Game deserves to be in the Outstanding Book for The College Bound list. This book gives you some ideas of how the future might be like. The theme of this book is show it how people can manipulate you into doing something you don't want. For example Ender was tricked into thinking that he killed all the Buggers in the game, which was actually real.Recommendation:
I would recommend this book to any one who is interested in what the future might be like. I liked this book because it made me, not want to stop reading this book.I give this 4 out of 5.Quotes:
"No authority except excellence." (Card 167)
"I am not a happy man, Ender. Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it."(Card 125)
Bibliography:
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